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民法
民法
Chinese
| the people; nationality; citizen | law; method; way; Buddhist teaching; Legalist; France (abbrev.)
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simp. and trad. (民法) |
民 | 法 | |
Noun
民法
- (law) civil law
Synonyms
- 民事 (mínshì)
Japanese
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| 民 | 法 |
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みん Grade: 4 |
ほう > ぽう Grade: 4 |
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Etymology
Translated as a calque of "civil law" by Tsuda Mamichi.[1]
Noun
民法 (hiragana みんぽう, romaji minpō)
Compounds
- 民法典 (minpōten, “the civil code”)
References
- ↑ 1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4000801112
- ↑ 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.